Re: [HACKERS] 7.0 status request

--- Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > > Here are the major open issues for 7.0 that I remember:
> > > > Foreign Keys - Jan
> > > > WAL - Vadim
> > > > Function args - Tom
> > > > System indcxes - Bruce
> > > > Outer joins and new multi-query parse tree are questionable items
> for
> > > > 7.0.
> > >
> > > You might include "join syntax", which will be ready even if outer
> > > joins are not.
> > >
> > > Also, didn't some folks express concern that indices on system
> tables
> > > would make the backend more fragile? Did we resolve that issue?
> >
> > We have indexes on most system tables and it isn't a problem
> currently.
>
> It is, because a corrupted index on a system table cannot be
> corrected by drop/create, as a user defined index could be.
>
> I don't know why and when reindexdb disappeared, but that
> script was a last resort for exactly the situation of a
> corrupted system index. Let me take a look if this
> functionality could easily be recreated.
>
>
> Jan
>
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For what its worth, TRUNCATE TABLE already rebuilds indexes on TRUNCATE'd
tables, so it shouldn't be that much of a leap, one would think.

Mike Mascari
(mascarim(at)yahoo(dot)com)

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